Rihards Steinbergs

Today, I read from a few other public journals that I follow and like to read.

Another thing that I myself experienced for the first time in Finland.

It’s currently 16:42 in Finland as I’m writing this entry.

Big (grocery) shopping day today.

Today was going to be a rest day, and in the end it was.

Originally this was going to be a post about containers.

Writing these journal entries.. immediately getting interrupted by my wife and losing track of what I was going to write for the second of my five daily journals that I’m trying to catch up with.

Is it “One of five” or “One out of five”?

This entry is number fourteen.

Another long day at the office.

There’s definitely a bit of pain going on today.

It’s Saturday, and this weekend I had promised a friend (former ex-colleague, now a friend, because once they leave the company that both of you work at, you become friends instead) to help move house.

Often if feels like it is much easier to write these journal entries about work.

It has been some time since I last visited Helsinki.

Snowflake largely dominates my Wednesday.

Already on second day the new office excitement has mostly gone away.

Kerava isn’t that far away from Helsinki, and specifically my work office.

The day after Talkoot can go many ways, but usually it’s more relaxed, and in some cases might require some recovery and relaxation.

Talkoot, as defined by Wikipedia, “is a Finnish expression for a gathering of friends and neighbors organized to accomplish a task”.

Today started as most days tend to, wake up, get ready for the day ahead, take Ahto for a walk.

Warning: this is less of a journal entry, more of a tech related rant about documentation and documenting.

Born in Latvia, lived there for a decade, then another decade in Austria, and for the past 13 years now in Kerava, Finland.

It has been a long, frustrating, yet ultimately a rewarding day.

While typically I prefer something like Drupal VM over Acquia Dev Desktop (and that’s a different topic) I’ve found myself using Dev Desktop more recently, due to how easy, reliably, and quickly it can spin up new copies of Drupal.

This is a post in a planned series of “Strong Opinion, Weakly Held” posts where I state an opinion that I strongly believe in.

Background information This might be documented somewhere already, and probably also blogged about already.

For the last year at my current workplace, (Exove, by the way we are hiring: Careers), one of my responsibilities has been to evaluate job applications and see if we are going to proceed with the candidate.

I’m a firm believer that deep inside all of us there is a desire to create.

Background information For a while now I’ve been thinking about starting a new project, and as with most such cases I’ve been thinking that I need to do things better and more proper this time around.

During the past ten (on and off) years I’ve worked on around thirty WordPress projects, some have been great, and some have been not so great.

Given that I don’t write blogs anymore all that often you might have not noticed that I’ve once again made changes to it.

A while ago I was asked to create thousands of redirects for a customer.

2014 update: it would seem that Moustachify no longer works, and I’m guessing this has to do with missing dependencies.